Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is an awfully common—and awful—condition that impacts 1/4 to 1/3 of women worldwide in their lifetime. BV is triggered when the vaginal microbiome, which is normally dominated ...

Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia developed a reliable method to produce helper T cells from stem cells by precisely tuning Notch signaling, enabling scalable, off-the-shelf immune ...

Once an era arrives where cancer can be treated through immunity, cancer will no longer be a fearsome disease but an ordinary ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have discovered that increasing the levels of a protein called BACH2 makes ...

CD8 + cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) serve as central effectors in cancer immunotherapy by directly eliminating tumor cells. However, current clinical therapies face significant limitations. These ...

Cancer immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that harnesses the immune system to fight cancer cells. The treatment ...

Our results provide mechanistic evidence that immune responses to EBV can directly damage the brain in MS,” said Olivia Thomas, PhD, assistant professor at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at ...

Trojan horse” approach may enable ‘antigen-independent’ therapy with potential to treat cancers not traditionally amenable to immunotherapy.

The fight against cancer is undergoing a paradigm shift with the emergence of innovative strategies in Cancer Immunity & Immunotherapy. These approaches harness the body's own immune system to ...